Remember this?

We do. It was one of those phenomena that swept our area and the rest of the nation in 2014.

It headlines our list of 10 trends and events that helped define the year. They weren’t always local news, but still caught the imaginations, passions and attention of local residents:

1) THE ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE

Athletes, politicians, movie stars — everybody was taking the plunge in ice-cold water this summer to raise money for Lou Gehrig’s Disease research.

The fad spread via social media and gained critical mass with versions by Bill Gates, Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jr., Martha Stewart, Ashton Kutcher, Dave Grohl, George Takei and dozens of other celebrities.

The ALS Association claimed donations from the Ice Bucket Challenged crossed the $100 million mark.

2) SELFIES

Hold your phone at arm’s length and snap a pic of yourself — extra points for using a fashionably tilted angle.

The selfie was all the rage in early 2014, finding life on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

When host Ellen Degeneres tweeted a selfie with stars attending the Academy Awards, it became the most-retweeted image of all time.

In the spring, “selfie” topped the list of new terms validated by induction to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (along with “tweep” and “hashtag”).

3) PERSONALITY QUIZZES

Which “Friends” cast member are you? What food matches your personality? What country should you live in?

If you use Facebook, you are probably inundated with “fun” surveys aimed at telling you something you don’t know about yourself based on five or six simple questions.

We hate them.

Please stop.

4) LOSS OF ROBIN WILLIAMS

The star of “Mork and Mindy,” “Aladdin,” “Dead Poets Society,” “Good Will Hunting” and “Mrs. Doubtfire,” Robin Williams died Aug. 11 at age 63.

What came as a shock is that one of the most beloved comedic actors in history took his own life.

Doctors said after Williams’ autopsy that he had a form of dementia that contributed to his death and may have been misdiagnosed as Parkinson’s disease.

The lights on Broadway were dimmed in his honor and Emmy Awards host Billy Crystal described Williams as “the brightest star in our comedy galaxy.”

5) ‘STAR WARS’ FEVER

May the Force be with us as “Star Wars” geeks — present company included — gear up for the release of a new trilogy.

A teaser trailer was released Nov. 28 for “The Force Awakens,” which will be Episode VII in the franchise canon. It immediately set the Internet afire with its images of a crossbar lightsaber, X-wings zooming low over water and the Millennium Falcon barrel-rolling toward TIE fighters.

Speculation is that we’ll see the return of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia when the movie is released Dec. 18.

6) THE OLYMPICS

We were glued to our TVs in February for the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

From the icy fashions of the opening ceremony to political gaffs to scandals over faulty construction to the high of following young American gymnastics prodigies, the Games had it all.

With the home advantage, Russia topped the medal count with 13 gold and 33 total, followed distantly by Norway, Canada and the United States.

7) THE WORLD CUP

The Americans surprised the world by hanging on to Wold Cup dreams longer than anyone expected.

Fever pitch grew at home as the U.S. team survived games against Ghana and Portugal in Brazil before falling 1-0 to Germany.

Germany went on to win the 2014 FIFA tournament in a 1-0 bout versus Argentina.

Mario Gotze scored the winning goal in the 113th minute, becoming the youngest player to score in a World Cup final and the only substitute ever to do so.

8) PHILAE’S COMET LANDING

We landed on a comet.

It was the Generation Y equivalent of the moon landing when the Philae spacecraft set down Nov. 12 on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

It took more than 10 years for the European Space Agency probe to travel 4 billion miles to its target. It’s goal: To collect samples that can help scientists understand the origin of the solar system.

What they discovered was a large amount of water under a thin layer of dust, further cementing the idea that comets are big players in planetary formation.

9) EBOLA

This past year’s outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa is the largest in history, with more than 12,000 laboratory-confirmed cases and nearly 7,400 deaths.

Two imported cases brought the virus to the United States in October, causing one death and a smattering of quarantines.

Several people in Northern Ohio were under watch for symptoms after sharing an airplane with a Texas health care worker, though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say there are no longer any active cases stateside.

Thirty-eight percent of Americans polled by the Harvard School of Public Health said they worry that Ebola will infect them or a family member over the next year.

10) SUPERHERO MOVIES

Gather around, fellow nerds: We love superhero flicks.

“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” grossed $260 million at the box office, with “X-Men: Days of Future Past” following at $234 million.

“Guardians of the Galaxy,” the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, blew them both away with $333 million at theaters.

It’s truly the age of the comic book geek. Between DC and Marvel, there are more than 20 superhero films slated over the next six years, including “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Captain America: Civil War,” “Wonder Woman,” “X-Men: Apocalypse,” “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice,” “Doctor Strange” and a string of Justice League movies.